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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?
(a) Boundry lines.
(b) Fences.
(c) White cattle ranchers.
(d) Gates and locks.

2. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Did Not Butcher.
(b) Planter of Water.
(c) Good Fox.
(d) Flying By.

3. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

4. What was the name of the old medicine man that brought Lame Deer to the vision pit on the hilltop?
(a) Red Rock.
(b) Healy.
(c) Chest.
(d) Fall.

5. What does Lame Deer say is the name of a man who "uses the power of the rawhide and the stones to find and to cure"?
(a) Waanazin.
(b) Waayatan.
(c) Wapiya.
(d) Yuwipi.

6. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Tipis.
(b) Indian babies.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Thunderbirds.

7. What did the rectangles represent that had one line missing that are found on the belt that Lame Deer's grandmother made?
(a) Open doors.
(b) Puffs of smoke off the pipe.
(c) Tipi houses.
(d) Horses' tracks.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?
(a) Steal.
(b) Curse.
(c) Lie.
(d) Cheat.

9. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?
(a) An owl.
(b) A golden eagle.
(c) A night hawk.
(d) A crow.

10. As a start to a yuwipi meeting what needed to be done with all the windows and doors?
(a) The needed to be opened.
(b) They needed to be covered with blankets.
(c) They needed to be painted.
(d) They needed to be purified.

11. What does the Sioux word wincincalas mean?
(a) Powerful warriors.
(b) Monstrous buffaloes.
(c) Frightened dogs.
(d) Good-looking girls.

12. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Four.

13. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Screaming Eagle.
(b) Morning Sun.
(c) Rod Iron.
(d) Iron Star.

14. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) The instruction book.
(b) A woman to cry about.
(c) Green frog skin.
(d) A flask.

15. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Sign painting.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Fence builder.
(d) Rodeo clown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lame Deer mention was a problem for Indians and that it wouldn't get better?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?

3. How old was Lame Deer when his mother died?

4. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

5. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?

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